On June 20, 2018, Professor Satish Nagarajaiah of Rice University in Houston visited the Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University, and gave a presentation titled "Adaptive Negative Stiffness Systems for Seismic Protection". Professors Xinzheng Lu, Xiaodong Ji, and postgraduates of the Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University participated in this presentation and discussed the related contents with Professor Nagarajaiah.

Satish Nagarajaiah is a Professor of Civil Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering at Rice University, Houston.

His research and teaching focuses on structural dynamic systems, computational structural mechanics, earthquake engineering, adaptive stiffness structural systems, structural control, sparse structural system identification, and noncontact structural strain sensing using nanomaterials.